[Samba] ldap pam and samba

dweise dweise at rider.edu
Tue May 14 15:16:02 GMT 2002


Well that makes me enthusiastic. But what are the passwords in your LDAP 
plaintext?

At 10:37 PM 5/14/2002 +0200, Peter Hübschen wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I haven't tried it, but hopefully soon I will (there are some problems 
>with the LDAP-server (nds). I think this should work:
>- compile samba with the "--with-pam" option
>- install nss_ldap and pam_ldap, configure them, test them
>and it should work.
>
>I had the following testsetup and it worked:
>- Client configured with nss_ldap and pam_ldap.
>- OpenLDAP-Server on an other box
>and I could login from the client. So the way was:
>
>login -> pam -> pam_ldap -> LDAP-Server
>and it worked.
>
>You have the following way:
>samba -> pam -> pam_ldap-> LDAP-Server
>so I think, this should work.
>
>One thing I'm not sure about:
>If you want to use samba as PDC for Win2k/XP this doesn't work via pam.
>
>
>Hope that helps
>Peter
>
>
>dweise wrote:
>
>>hello,
>>    can i authenticate samba to pam and then ldap? thank you.
>>
>>--David Weise
>>   OIT
>>   Rider University
>>
>>"The real race is not on the hot, paved road, the torturous off-road 
>>course or the smooth-surface velodrome. It is in the electrochemical 
>>pathways of your mind."--Alexi Grewal
>
>

--David Weise
   OIT
   Rider University

"The real race is not on the hot, paved road, the torturous off-road course 
or the smooth-surface velodrome. It is in the electrochemical pathways of 
your mind."--Alexi Grewal 





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